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This year’s Film London Jarman Awardtour will see the best in contemporary artists’ filmmaking taken to venues across the UK from 25 October to 14 December 2025.
The 2025 tour will visit venues across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, with screenings and artist talks at 7 major arts venues in Edinburgh, Dublin, Nottingham, Eastbourne, London, Gateshead, Cardiff and Bristol,accompanied by the opportunity to watch recent works by all the artists.
The tour will visit: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead;Barbican Centre, London;IMMA, Dublin; LUX Scotland, Edinburgh; g39, Cardiff; Nottingham Contemporary; Spike Island, Bristol; Towner Eastbourneand Whitechapel Gallery, London.
For the first time in the Film London Jarman Award’s eighteen-year history, the tour culminates in a month-long exhibition of films by all six shortlisted artists, from 18 November to 14 December at Whitechapel Gallery,London.
Featuring work from the six artists shortlisted for the 2025 Film London Jarman Award, the tour will offer audiences the chance to explore an extraordinary range of boundary pushing work.
Informed by interviews with first-generation migrants living in London, Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah’s I Carry It With Me Everywhere (2022) looks at the timeless search for home and belonging amongst an environment of displacement.
In Machine Boys (2024), Karimah Ashadu enters the underground community of motorbike taxi drivers, a forbidden practice in Lagos, and delivers a visceral portrait of masculinity and precarious labour in Nigeria’s patriarchal culture.
Elsewhere Onyeka Igwe’s archival collage film The Miracle on George Green (2022) presents a picture of the protests and collective resistance to the building of the M11 link road in Hackney, expanding out to consider global histories of protest.
Hope Strickland’s a river holds a perfect memory (2024) meanders gently across waterways in Jamaica, from a leisurely raft on the Martha Brae River to a night-time boat trip in Falmouth’s bioluminescent Lagoon. Shifting focus to the impact of industry on the waters of northern England, the film uses water to explore the entanglement of these supposedly disparate communities.
Morgan Quaintance’s Repetitions (2022) dissects formal elements of film in a heightened sequence of flickering images and sound loops which speak to social histories of industrial and physical labour.
Shot in a 16th Century manor house in the South Downs, George Finlay Ramsay’s 16mm film Nursted, from the sleep side (2023) takes us through the dark corridors and dusty shelves of the former home of two bohemian artists, reflecting on its history as it falls into disrepair and the fading memories of its inhabitants.
The recipient of the £10,000 award will be announced on at a special celebration in London on 25 November.
Following the announcement, the 2025 Jarman Awardee’s work will be shown at Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin, from 27 November to 10 December. This new partnership will see the Awardee’s film shown on Living Canvas at IMMA, a monumental digital outdoor art screen on the Museum’s Front Lawn presented at IMMA by IPUT Real Estate. The screen has previously hosted works by Derek Jarman, Chantal Akerman, Bruce Conner, Emily Jacir and Hamad Butt.
The Jury who selected this year’s shortlist are: Matthew Barrington, Cinema Curator, Barbican; Shaminder Nahal, Commissioning Editor, Arts and Topical, Channel 4; Maryam Tafakory, 2024 Jarman Awardee; Gilane Tawadros, Director, Whitechapel Gallery; Nicole Yip, Director, Spike Island and Film London Board Member.
Adrian Wootton OBE, Chief Executive of Film London, said: “The Film London Jarman Award is central to our support of artist filmmakers, showcasing the world of artists’ moving image to a wide range of audiences. The 2025 shortlist comprises work that is as diverse in subject matter as it is in style, with projects that are ambitious and brave, using innovative approaches and exploring boundaries of technology and narrative. I’m delighted that an even larger audience will gain access to films this year through our annual touring programme and an exciting exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery. I would like to congratulate all six shortlisted artists and thank our funders, Arts Council England, for their vital support, as well as our venue touring partners and the Whitechapel Gallery.”
Films in the 2025 Touring Programme:
- Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah, I Carry It With Me Everywhere (2022), 19 mins
- Karimah Ashadu, Machine Boys (2024), 8 mins
- George Finlay Ramsay , Nursted, from the sleep side (2023), 13 mins
- Onyeka Igwe, The Miracle on George Green (2022), 12 mins
- Morgan Quaintance, Repetitions (2022), 24 mins
- Hope Strickland, a river holds a perfect memory (2024), 17 mins
Films in the Film London Jarman Award 2025 exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery:
- Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah, And still, it remains (2023), 28 mins
- Karimah Ashadu, Machine Boys (2024), 8 mins
- George Finlay Ramsay , Flesh, Wax & Glass: The Age of the Son (2024), 38 mins
- Onyeka Igwe, A Radical Duet (2023), 28 mins
- Morgan Quaintance, Repetitions (2022), 24 mins
- Hope Strickland, a river holds a perfect memory (2024), 17 mins
The 2025 Film London Jarman Award Touring Programme Events:
Saturday 25 October
g39, Cardiff
Screening and in-conversation with Onyeka Igwe
https://g39.org/
Tuesday 4 November
Nottingham Contemporary
Screening and in-conversation with Morgan Quaintance
https://www.nottinghamcontempo...
Monday 10 November
Barbican, London
Screening and in-conversation with George Finlay Ramsay
https://www.barbican.org.uk/wh...
Tuesday 11 November
Towner Eastbourne
Screening and in-conversation with Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah
https://townereastbourne.org.u...
Tuesday 11 November
Filmhouse, Edinburgh, hosted by LUX Scotland
Screening and in-conversation with Hope Strickland
https://luxscotland.org.uk/programme
18 November – 14 December
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Exhibition with films by all shortlisted artists
https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/
Wednesday 19 November
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
Screening of films by all shortlisted artists
https://baltic.art/whats-on/
Thursday 20 November
Spike Island, Bristol
Screening and in-conversation with Karimah Ashadu
https://www.spikeisland.org.uk/
27 November – 10 December
Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin
Screening of 2025 Jarman Awardee artist
https://imma.ie/
Thursday 11 December
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Screening of 2025 Jarman Awardee artist